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www.fisheries.noaa.gov/southeast/ 

resources-fishing/southeast-fisheriespermits, or, if requested by a 

respondent, the SERO Permits Office 

can mail an application and 

instructions. Respondents can complete 

and submit forms electronically, or 

complete paper forms, and then 

respondents can either mail or bring the 

forms to NMFS. 

III. Data 

OMB Control Number: 0648–0205. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Review: Regular submission— 

extension of current information 

collection. 

Affected Public: Businesses or other 

for-profit organizations, and individuals 

or households. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

9,471. 

Estimated Time per Response: 

• Dealer Permit Application, 30 

minutes; 

• Vessel EEZ Permit Application, 

including Golden Tilefish Endorsement 

and Smoothhound Shark Permit, 50 

minutes; 

• Wreckfish Permit Application, 55 

minutes; 

• Vessel Operator Card Application 

for Rock Shrimp, 30 minutes; 

• Fishing in Colombian Treaty Waters 

Vessel Permit Application, 50 minutes; 

• Golden Crab Permittee Zone Transit 

Notification, 10 minutes; 

• Notifications of Lost or Stolen Traps 

or Authorization for Retrieval (golden 

crab, reef fish, snapper-grouper, spiny 

lobster), 10 minutes; 

• Vessel Permit Transfers and 

Notarizations, 10 minutes; 

• Annual Landings Report for Gulf of 

Mexico Shrimp, 20 minutes; 

• International Maritime Organization 

Number Registration, 30 minutes; 

• Aquacultured Live Rock Permitting 

and Reporting—New Permit—Deposit or 

Harvest Report, 15 minutes; Notice of 

Intent to Harvest, 10 minutes; Federal 

Permit Application, including Site 

Evaluation Report, 70 minutes; and 

• Aquacultured Live Rock Permitting 

and Reporting—Renew Permit—Deposit 

or Harvest Report, 15 minutes; Notice of 

Intent to Harvest, 10 minutes; Federal 

Permit Application, 50 minutes. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 7,009. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost to 

Public: $321,508 in recordkeeping or 

reporting costs. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. 

Legal Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. 

IV. Request for Comments 

We are soliciting public comments to 

permit the Department to: (a) evaluate 

whether the proposed information 

collection is necessary for the proper 

functions of the Department, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (b) evaluate the 

accuracy of our estimate of the time and 

cost burden for this information 

collection, including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (c) 

evaluate ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and (d) minimize the 

reporting burden on those who are to 

respond, including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

Comments that you submit in 

response to this notice are a matter of 

public record. We will include or 

summarize each comment in our request 

to OMB to approve this information 

collection. Before including your 

address, phone number, email address, 

or other personal identifying 

information in your comment, you 

should be aware that your entire 

comment—including your personal 

identifying information—may be made 

publicly available at any time. While 

you may ask us in your comment to 

withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of 

the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, 

Commerce Department. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Patent and Trademark Office 

[Docket No.: PTO–P–2023–0038] 

USPTO AI/ET Partnership: Public 

Meeting on Artificial Intelligence Tools 

and Data 

AGENCY: United States Patent and 

Trademark Office, U.S. Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The United States Patent and 

Trademark Office (USPTO) plays an 

important role in incentivizing and 

protecting innovation, including 

innovation driven by artificial 

intelligence (AI), a transformative 

technology that holds promise for 

tremendous societal and economic 

benefit. The USPTO embraces an 

expansive view of the potential of AI 

and other emerging technologies (ET) as 

tools to be leveraged for advancing 

equitable access to the intellectual 

property (IP) system, improving agency 

operations, and enhancing employee 

effectiveness. Development and 

implementation of AI-enabled tools at 

the USPTO advances national priorities 

in IP to protect and promote inclusive, 

transparent, and trustworthy 

innovation. The USPTO will host a 

public meeting on AI tools and data 

virtually and in person at the USPTO 

headquarters on September 27, 2023, at 

10:30 a.m. ET. This will be the fourth 

meeting in the USPTO’s AI/ET 

Partnership Series. First announced in 

June 2022, the AI/ET Partnership 

provides an opportunity to bring 

stakeholders together through a series of 

engagements to share ideas, feedback, 

experiences, and insights on the 

intersection of IP and AI/ET. 

DATES: The public meeting will be held 

on September 27, 2023, from 10:30 a.m. 

to 4 p.m. ET. Persons seeking to attend, 

either virtually or in person, must 

register by September 24, 2023, at the 

website listed in the ADDRESSES section 

of this notice. 

ADDRESSES: Register at https://

www.uspto.gov/about-us/events/aietpartnership-series-4-ai-data-set-andtools. The public meeting will be held 

virtually and in person at the USPTO 

headquarters, Clara Barton Auditorium, 

600 Dulany St., Alexandria, VA 22314. 

Registration is required for both virtual 

and in person attendance. 

The public meeting will be physically 

accessible to people with disabilities. 

Individuals requiring accommodation, 

such as sign language interpretation or 

other ancillary aids, should 

communicate their needs to an 

individual listed under the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section of this 

notice at least seven (7) business days 

prior to the public meeting. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Aleksandr Kerzhner, Supervisory Patent 

Examiner, at 571–270–1760, or 

Aleksandr.Kerzhner@uspto.gov; or 

Srilakshmi Kumar, Supervisory Patent 

Examiner, at 571–272–7769, or 

Srilakshmi.Kumar@uspto.gov. You can 

also send inquiries to AIPartnership@

uspto.gov. Please direct all media 

inquiries to the Office of the Chief 

Communications Officer at 571–272– 

8400. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

USPTO held its inaugural AI/ET 

Partnership meeting virtually in June 

2022. This meeting provided an 

overview of the National AI Initiative 

and the USPTO’s efforts on AI/ET, 

including the USPTO AI Patent Dataset. 

The meeting also discussed important 

patent policy issues related to AI/ET 


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inventions, such as subject matter 

eligibility, disclosure, and inventorship. 

In September 2022, the USPTO held 

its second AI/ET Partnership meeting 

virtually and in person at the USPTO’s 

Silicon Valley Regional Office. This 

meeting focused on AI and 

biotechnology and explored current 

trends highlighting the convergence of 

technologies in the life sciences and AI, 

as well as the IP considerations arising 

from this technological convergence. 

In February 2023, the USPTO held its 

third AI/ET Partnership meeting 

virtually and in person at the Arts 

District Mansion in Dallas, Texas. This 

meeting focused on various IP policy 

issues with respect to AI-driven 

innovation, including the current state 

of AI-driven innovation, ways to 

address inventions created with 

significant AI contributions, and 

unanticipated IP challenges from AIdriven innovation. 

The USPTO will hold its fourth AI/ET 

Partnership meeting virtually and in 

person at the USPTO headquarters in 

Alexandria, Virginia, on September 27, 

2023. Presentations and panel 

discussions will focus on: efforts at the 

USPTO and elsewhere to harness AI to 

benefit stakeholders and the IP system, 

the value of USPTO data in advancing 

the state-of-the-art in AI, and timely 

policy issues as to trustworthy and 

responsible AI. 

Instructions and Information on the 

Public Meeting 

The public meeting will be held 

virtually and in person at the USPTO 

headquarters, Clara Barton Auditorium, 

600 Dulany St., Alexandria, VA 22314, 

from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET. The 

agenda is available on the USPTO 

website at https://www.uspto.gov/aboutus/events/aiet-partnership-series-4-aidata-set-and-tools. Registrations to 

attend the meeting must be submitted 

on the same web page. 

Katherine K. Vidal, 

Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual 

Property and Director of the United States 

Patent and Trademark Office. 

[FR Doc. 2023–18044 Filed 8–21–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–16–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket No.: ED–2023–SCC–0097] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; Comment Request; 

Efficacy Evaluation of the Mathematics 

Intervention Toolkit for the Elementary 

Grades 

AGENCY: Institute of Education Sciences 

(IES), Department of Education (ED). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 

1995, the Department is proposing a 

new information collection request 

(ICR). 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before 

September 21, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for proposed 

information collection requests should 

be submitted within 30 days of 

publication of this notice. Click on this 

link www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain to access the site. Find this 

information collection request (ICR) by 

selecting ‘‘Department of Education’’ 

under ‘‘Currently Under Review,’’ then 

check the ‘‘Only Show ICR for Public 

Comment’’ checkbox. Reginfo.gov 

provides two links to view documents 

related to this information collection 

request. Information collection forms 

and instructions may be found by 

clicking on the ‘‘View Information 

Collection (IC) List’’ link. Supporting 

statements and other supporting 

documentation may be found by 

clicking on the ‘‘View Supporting 

Statement and Other Documents’’ link. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

specific questions related to collection 

activities, please contact Janelle Sands, 

202–245–6786. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department is especially interested in 

public comment addressing the 

following issues: (1) is this collection 

necessary to the proper functions of the 

Department; (2) will this information be 

processed and used in a timely manner; 

(3) is the estimate of burden accurate; 

(4) how might the Department enhance 

the quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (5) how 

might the Department minimize the 

burden of this collection on the 

respondents, including through the use 

of information technology. Please note 

that written comments received in 

response to this notice will be 

considered public records. 

Title of Collection: Efficacy Evaluation 

of the Mathematics Intervention Toolkit 

for the Elementary Grades. 

OMB Control Number: 1850–NEW. 

Type of Review: A new ICR. 

Respondents/Affected Public: 

Individuals and households. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 9,630. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 3,106. 

Abstract: The U.S. Department of 

Education (ED) requests OMB clearance 

for data collection related to the 

Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) 

program. ED, in consultation with REL 

Northeast and the Islands (REL–NEI) 

under contract 91990022C0013 has 

planned a study of the efficacy of a 

professional development (PD) course 

for fourth and fifth grade math 

intervention teachers in the state of 

Massachusetts. Researchers at WestEd 

will carry out a school-level randomized 

controlled trial (RCT) to evaluate the 

efficacy of the PD course and investigate 

how and whether the PD course is 

helping teachers improve their practices 

and boost student learning. OMB 

approval is being requested for REL– 

NEI’s data collection for this project, 

including pre and post measures of 

student skills and attitudes, and teacher 

knowledge, beliefs, and feedback 

regarding instructional practice and 

implementation of the PD course. 

Elementary math achievement is a 

topic of national concern. Students who 

leave elementary school with a strong 

foundation in mathematics, particularly 

fractions, are better prepared to succeed 

in middle school mathematics and 

algebra. Algebra is a well-documented 

gatekeeper to advanced high school 

math coursework, which is consistently 

linked to increased post-secondary 

opportunities and earnings. On the 2019 

NAEP report card, only 41% of grade 4 

students scored Proficient or above in 

math, and these numbers are lower for 

students from marginalized 

backgrounds. These opportunity gaps 

persist at the secondary level, so need 

to be addressed as soon as they appear. 

Given this need, district leaders in 

Massachusetts are seeking ways to 

bolster learning for students who 

struggle with mathematics. Some of 

these approaches adopted by districts 

target core instruction, but districts are 

also interested in strengthening their 

approaches to intervention. Together 

with the Massachusetts Partnership to 

Support Student Learning Through 

Math Intervention, REL–NEI is 

designing a toolkit PD course to build 

educators’ knowledge of and ability to 

implement the recommendations of a 

new What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) 


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